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I bought a copy of the 1928-1930 materialy. where is this headed

hard to imagine a worse timeline

Other places, she thought, other worlds, dusty terminals, major intersections, this is routine and always will be.

I love this video of that apartment in St Louis blowing over / apart.. looks exactly like every shitty abundance style gentrified apartment building in my Brooklyn hood.

in the bronze tower I looked out at the umber hills and felt assured and well defended, safe in my office box and crisp white shirt and connected to things that made me feel stronger.

Alert, watchful thinking for oneself seems higher than knowing.

poem

YouTube video by Destroyer Destroyer - Bologna (feat. Fiver) (Official Music Video)

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We find ourselves with a Democratic party suffering from a chronic and fatal failure of imagination.

Clinging to the forms of institutions no longer up to the task of stopping fascism, while using what little remaining power they do have to suppress those whose eyes are open to the danger. 12/

Incredible to think how hard Merrick Garland worked for four years to avoid even the remotest appearance of partisanship or ideological commitments, and literally on her first day as AG Pam Bondi is like "Diversity is now illegal, we will be putting all the libs in prison"

Death’s a sad bone; bruised, you’d say, / and yet she waits for me, year after year, / to empty my breath from its bad prison.

YouTube video by BillieEilishVEVO Billie Eilish - L’AMOUR DE MA VIE (Official Lyric Video)

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Lenin repeatedly stated: imperialism is the eve of the socialist revolution.

closeup on Daniel Day-Lewis's character Newland Archer kissing the silken slippered foot of Michelle Pfeiffer's Ellen, his left hand pressed flat to the floor, the hem of her gown (ivory with gold flowers and stripes) seen on the left

closeup on the hands of Newland and Ellen: Newland's hand is unbuttoning her brown glove and parting the fabric, just moments before kissing her bare wrist

Newland's hand caressing the cover of a leather-bound book

Newland, with eyes closed, kissing and breathing in the floral-carved handle of a pink folded umbrella he believes belongs to Ellen

The Age of Innocence's narrator says the characters live in a "hieroglyphic world" where the real thing is never said or done, only represented by arbitrary signs, and the film is just the same. an incredibly violent movie with no physical violence - & images that suggest sex without depicting it

this winter break. me and losurdo

by and large, I feel in the eight years I've lived in nyc the subway generally past 9pm has become nearly non grata if you're keen on anything that isn't a 15 minute wait.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long. neruda

Raymond chandler by jameson

twins

If you think about it, the very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person for the rest of your life

winter is, in a sense, an early drawing of blackout curtains. a cruel fate.

without much relief or redistribution (while acknowledging the blockaid/sanctions), what else could have happened with the saa and the mass desertion we are seeing.

Deeply embarrassing for Khanna and Sanders to indulge DOGE, as if Musk or Trump will ever go after the military state or cut “waste” in some ideologically neutral way. A boilerplate rw attack on the liberal state by two cynical racist liars who will absolutely never do anything remotely progressive

Major Briggs

the sky runs gray, the smoke wet-yellow.

this but it's been Jane Austen

finally the new Magdalena album